Plant Openings

PPL Electric Utilities has plans to build a new electricity transmission network that would span Pennsylvania and branch into New York, Maryland and New Jersey, the utility announced Thursday. At the heart of the massive undertaking — expected to cost ratepayers $4 billion to $6 billion and possibly earn PPL hundreds of millions of dollars in profit — would be a 500 kilovolt line running 725 miles. If approved, PPL predicts, the project will improve energy reliability and security and provide customer savings by eliminating transmission bottlenecks and encouraging development of lower-cost natural gas-fueled generation plants. The new plants would help replace energy...

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PPL Electric Utilities has plans to build a new electricity transmission network that would span Pennsylvania and branch into New York, Maryland and New Jersey, the utility announced Thursday.
At the heart of the massive undertaking — expected to cost...

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